Daunte Wright, warrant for Aggravated Battery

[ajax18]

Daunte Wright allegedly had a warrant out for his arrest at the time he was shot and killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer near Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sunday, court papers obtained by the British Daily Mail newspaper suggest.

“Wright was due to face trial on a charge of attempted aggravated robbery – with a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison,” the newspaper reported on April 13.

The charge stems from an incident in December 2019 when Wright, then 19 years old, and a second man named Emajay Driver, then 18 years old, allegedly visited a residence shared by two women in Osseo, Minnesota. Wright allegedly tried to hold up one of the women to steal a sum of $820 in cash she had stashed inside her bra. Wright allegedly pointed a gun at the woman, choked her, and threatened to shoot her if she did not hand over the money.

“The $820 cash was tucked in the victim’s bra and defendant Wright placed his hand around victim’s neck and choked her while trying to pull the cash from under her bra,” according to Officer Mikkelson. “Victim was able to get loose from defendant Wright and started to kneel down and scream.”

“After more yelling, Wright allegedly told the woman that he was going to shoot her unless he got the money,” according to the Daily Mail.

Wright’s bail for the charge was originally set at $100,000, “with orders that he should not contact the victim or any witnesses, refrain from drugs and alcohol and not have any weapons. A bond bailsman paid $40,000 for his release,” the Daily Mail reports.

Wright’s bail was revoked in July 2020, however, “due to his ‘failure to not possess a firearm or ammunition’ and not keeping in touch with his probation officer,” according to court papers seen by the Daily Mail. A judge issued a warrant for Wright’s arrest at that time. The arrest warrant was still outstanding on April 11, the day he died.

The Daily Mail addressed claims made in recent days on the internet alleging “Wright may not even have known about the warrant because it was sent to the wrong address and returned to the court by the U.S. Postal Service.” According to the newspaper, “that letter, sent out on February 2 and returned to the court three days later, was just to advise Wright of a change of date for his court hearing.”

Wright was pulled over by members of the Brooklyn Center Police Department near Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 11 for having expired license plate tags. The police officers learned of Wright’s outstanding arrest warrant while verifying his personal information during the traffic stop and tried to arrest him. Wright resisted the arrest and got back into his car as officers attempted to handcuff him. An officer named Kimberly Potter accidentally shot Wright with a gun during the altercation, apparently believing she was firing her Taser, and he subsequently died.

Potter’s bodycam footage of the incident captures her shouting, “Taser, taser, taser,” before she shoots Wright, seeming to indicate she intended to use a taser against him.

Potter resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department on April 13. Wright’s death sparked protests, riots, and looting in Minneapolis on the evening of April 11. The unrest continued in the city for a second night on April 12.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2021/04 ... New Testament-arrest/

Now this doesn't justify the female police officer of mistakenly grabbing her gun rather than a taser. She'll face a pretty open and shut case of involuntary manslaughter. But how many of you even know this about Daunte Wright from CNN? Daunte's parents won't accept the police officers account that she made a grave error. They insist it was intentional. My question for them is did they even know that Daunte was riding around with a warrant out for his arrest? Did they even care?

Now most here would contend that the only reason any of this happened to Daunte was because he was part black and Minnesota police are racist. I'm viewed as a racist because I still believe that running from a warrant and resisting arrest greatly increase your chances of bad things happening even if unintentionally.

[Icarus]

You're a racist because you hate black people and feel like you're part of a superior race. Try to run from your past all you like, the stench of your putrid beliefs follow you no matter how hard to try to conceal them. You're absolutely obsessed with themes that only find an audience among white supremacists.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Didn't the lady who shot my wife have extensive training with her sidearms and trained others? In other words, there is absolutely NO WAY a person that's even passingly familiar with their service weapon and a taser, even if the taser has a grip, could confuse the two upon grabbing one or the other.

Anecdote follows:

I trained on glocks, sig sauers, springfields, and a taser (I don't remember the model, maybe a M26 or some such model, but it had a grip). I also owned a Ruger at one point and a crappy Kel-tec. You train by basically grabbing your pistol without looking at it, raising it to a firing position, and then squeezing off a round, and then returning it to your holster without looking. Over and over and over and over again. It's damned endless. Point being is you can tell from the microsecond you touch your sidearm what kind of sidearm it is. They all feel different. They all have different textures, grips, design, weights, balances, whatever. Plus you raise the weapon to get a line of sight and, you know, you see the damned weapon.

There is NO WAY you could mistake a taser for a pistol. Everything about a taser is different. Everything. The grip is very different, the weight and balance is totally different, and when you raise it up to fire on the target the sighting is different from pistols. I'm convinced that woman shot that dude, and then stated on camera that she was confused in order to reduce the inevitable charges. In other words, she's attempting to lay down an alibi the moment she realized she screwed up. It's that simple.

- Doc

[Lem]

Didn't the lady who shot my wife have extensive training with her sidearms and trained others? In other words, there is absolutely NO WAY a person that's even passingly familiar with their service weapon and a taser, even if the taser has a grip, could confuse the two upon grabbing one or the other.

Anecdote follows:

I trained on glocks, sig sauers, springfields, and a taser (I don't remember the model, maybe a M26 or some such model, but it had a grip). I also owned a Ruger at one point and a crappy Kel-tec. You train by basically grabbing your pistol without looking at it, raising it to a firing position, and then squeezing off a round, and then returning it to your holster without looking. Over and over and over and over again. It's damned endless. Point being is you can tell from the microsecond you touch your sidearm what kind of sidearm it is. They all feel different. They all have different textures, grips, design, weights, balances, whatever. Plus you raise the weapon to get a line of sight and, you know, you see the damned weapon.

There is NO WAY you could mistake a taser for a pistol. Everything about a taser is different. Everything. The grip is very different, the weight and balance is totally different, and when you raise it up to fire on the target the sighting is different from pistols. I'm convinced that woman shot that dude, and then stated on camera that she was confused in order to reduce the inevitable charges. In other words, she's attempting to lay down an alibi the moment she realized she screwed up. It's that simple.

- Doc

i am just a lowly civilian who took up target shooting for fun, was trained by a policeman in my town, and shot for 5 or so years on my town's police league team. LITERALLY, there is no chance i would EVER have mistaken my pistol for a taser. NONE. My practice was nothing like the above, but I did spend a fair amount of time working on my grip, my index finger movement, my second hand placement, getting used to the weight, the balance, everything. I could have picked up my gun in the dead of night and known it was mine.

And i'm a civilian, with a casual hobby. i am really struggling to understand how this instructor made such an error.

[ajax18]

You're a racist because you hate black people and feel like you're part of a superior race. Try to run from your past all you like, the stench of your putrid beliefs follow you no matter how hard to try to conceal them. You're absolutely obsessed with themes that only find an audience among white supremacists.

I'm glad you liked the additional information. And for what it's worth, I've never concealed anything.

[ajax18]

I'm convinced that woman shot that dude, and then stated on camera that she was confused in order to reduce the inevitable charges.

Why do you think she shot him then?

[Gunnar]

Didn't the lady who shot my wife have extensive training with her sidearms and trained others? In other words, there is absolutely NO WAY a person that's even passingly familiar with their service weapon and a taser, even if the taser has a grip, could confuse the two upon grabbing one or the other.

Anecdote follows:

I trained on glocks, sig sauers, springfields, and a taser (I don't remember the model, maybe a M26 or some such model, but it had a grip). I also owned a Ruger at one point and a crappy Kel-tec. You train by basically grabbing your pistol without looking at it, raising it to a firing position, and then squeezing off a round, and then returning it to your holster without looking. Over and over and over and over again. It's stupid endless. Point being is you can tell from the microsecond you touch your sidearm what kind of sidearm it is. They all feel different. They all have different textures, grips, design, weights, balances, whatever. Plus you raise the weapon to get a line of sight and, you know, you see the stupid weapon.

There is NO WAY you could mistake a taser for a pistol. Everything about a taser is different. Everything. The grip is very different, the weight and balance is totally different, and when you raise it up to fire on the target the sighting is different from pistols. I'm convinced that woman shot that dude, and then stated on camera that she was confused in order to reduce the inevitable charges. In other words, she's attempting to lay down an alibi the moment she realized she screwed up. It's that simple.

- Doc

i am just a lowly civilian who took up target shooting for fun, was trained by a policeman in my town, and shot for 5 or so years on my town's police league team. LITERALLY, there is no chance i would EVER have mistaken my pistol for a taser. NONE. My practice was nothing like the above, but I did spend a fair amount of time working on my grip, my index finger movement, my second hand placement, getting used to the weight, the balance, everything. I could have picked up my gun in the dead of night and known it was mine.

And i'm a civilian, with a casual hobby. i am really struggling to understand how this instructor made such an error.

Until I read this post, I was inclined to give give Officer Potter the benefit of the doubt that she might indeed, in the stress of the moment, have mistaken her revolver for her taser. I consider that much less likely now, but I still don't know that I can justly rule that out with 100% certainty. I think it possible that given a sufficiently high stress or perceived threat level, even the the most highly trained individual can experience an occasional glitch. I have no doubt that she is devastated at what happened. Whether that is because the shooting was genuinely unintended or just because she got charged with a crime for it or both, I don't feel qualified to determine, because I have never personally handled either a handgun or taser.

I haven't fired any kind of gun, since I retired from the Air Force, which required me to have periodic weapons training with an M-16 rifle, with which I qualified for an Air Force marksmanship ribbon the first time I ever used one during basic training, and every other time I fired one thereafter. I don't know whether this is because I have some inherent talent for marksmanship, or because M-16s are just particularly easy to aim and shoot. I do know that I didn't score as high the one time they substituted an M-1 carbine for the M-16 usually used for my required target practice.

[Jersey Girl]

Daunte Wright allegedly had a warrant out for his arrest at the time he was shot and killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer near Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sunday, court papers obtained by the British Daily Mail newspaper suggest.

A British tabloid is your source. Doctor.

[Gunnar]

Daunte Wright allegedly had a warrant out for his arrest at the time he was shot and killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer near Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sunday, court papers obtained by the British Daily Mail newspaper suggest.

A British tabloid is your source. Doctor.

Not surprising, is it? I have no doubt that ajax will eagerly and uncritically accept any source whatsoever that reinforces his preconceptions.

[ajax18]

You're a racist because you hate black people and feel like you're part of a superior race. Try to run from your past all you like, the stench of your putrid beliefs follow you no matter how hard to try to conceal them. You're absolutely obsessed with themes that only find an audience among white supremacists.

And you know Icarus, I don't hate black people. I admit that I hate white limosuine liberals like yourself who use them to advance your communist objectives.

I'm not of a superior race nor did I ever claim to be. After meeting you, I'm not really sure I even love my own race.